The Rise of Reform Judaism: A Sourcebook of Its European Origins

by W. Gunther Plaut

This fiftieth anniversary edition of W. Gunther Plaut's classic volume on the beginnings of the Jewish Reform Movement is updated with a new introduction by Howard A. Berman. The Rise of Reform Judaism covers the first one hundred years of the movement, from the time of the eighteenth-century Jewish Enlightenment leader Moses Mendelssohn to the conclusion of the Augsburg synod in 1871.

In these pages the founders who established liberal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0827612168
• ISBN13: 9780827612167
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"